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  2. List of Latin legal terms - Wikipedia

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    Priority right or preferential right, i.e. a creditor's right to rank higher relative to another ius quaesitum tertio: right to third-party relief Right of a third-party beneficiary to sue in order to enforce a third-party contract, i.e. the opposite of privity of contract. ius retentionis: right of retaining Lien (possessory) ius variandi ...

  3. List of Latin phrases (A) - Wikipedia

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    Used in commerce to refer to ad valorem taxes, i.e., taxes based on the assessed value of real estate or personal property: ad victoriam: to/for victory: Used as a battle cry by the Romans. ad vitam aeternam: to eternal life: i.e., "to life everlasting". A common Biblical phrase ad vitam aut culpam: for life or until fault

  4. List of words having different meanings in American and ...

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    to give the right of way (to vehicles, pedestrians, etc.); [72] hence give way sign (US: yield [the right of way] sign) to retreat; to break down glass (v.) to hit someone with a broken bottle or drinking glass [73] (n.) a brittle, hard, transparent substance usually made from sand heated with soda or potash; (n.) drinking vessel made of glass

  5. Tax assessment - Wikipedia

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    The word tax assessment is used in different ways, but often refers to a tax liability owed by a taxpayer. In the case of property, a tax assessment is an evaluation or an estimate of value that is typically performed by a tax assessor. The assessment leads to an "assessed value," which is a base number used in the calculation of the property tax.

  6. Civil and political rights - Wikipedia

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    The phrase "civil rights" is a translation of Latin jus civis (right of the citizen). Roman citizens could be either free ( libertas ) or servile ( servitus ), but they all had rights in law. [ 3 ] After the Edict of Milan in 313, these rights included the freedom of religion; however, in 380, the Edict of Thessalonica required all subjects of ...

  7. Natural justice - Wikipedia

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    The real likelihood test centres on whether the facts, as assessed by the court, give rise to a real likelihood of bias. [22] In R v Gough (1993), [ 23 ] the House of Lords chose to state the test in terms of a "real danger of bias", and emphasized that the test was concerned with the possibility, not probability, of bias.

  8. Property - Wikipedia

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    Depending on the nature of the property, an owner of property may have the right to consume, alter, share, rent, sell, exchange, transfer, give away, or destroy it, or to exclude others from doing these things, [2] as well as to perhaps abandon it; whereas regardless of the nature of the property, the owner thereof has the right to properly use ...

  9. Chief complaint - Wikipedia

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    The chief complaint, formally known as CC in the medical field, or termed presenting complaint (PC) in Europe and Canada, forms the second step of medical history taking. It is sometimes also referred to as reason for encounter (RFE), presenting problem, problem on admission or reason for presenting.